'Known' in the Bible
since what can be known about God is evident among them, because God has shown it to them.
What should we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin if it were not for the law. For example, I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, Do not covet.
And what if God, desiring to display His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience objects of wrath ready for destruction?
And what if He did this to make known the riches of His glory on objects of mercy that He prepared beforehand for glory—
For who has known the mind of the Lord?Or who has been His counselor?
but now revealed and made known through the prophetic Scriptures, according to the command of the eternal God to advance the obedience of faith among all nations—